cosmic evolution
Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas
New research shows that distant quasars were born in the cold dark of turbulent gas.
A new Simulation of the Universe Contains 60 Trillion Particles, the Most Ever
Using new simulation suite, a team of scientists were able to conduct the largest set of cosmological simulations ever!
A Dark Matter map of our Local Cosmic Neighborhood
A new simulation by a team of astrophysicists has resulted in the most detailed 3D map of the cosmic web,…
An Extreme Simulation of the Universe’s First Stars
An international team of astronomers has conducted an extreme simulation that modeled what the formation of the first stars looked…
There’s a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day
In the 1960s, astronomers began theorizing that there might be black holes in the Universe that are so massive -…
Rare “Ring Galaxy” Seen in the Early Universe
Astronomers have discovered a collisional ring galaxy that existed when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, a find…
Astronomers See the Farthest Galaxy Group Ever Found, When the Universe was Only 5% of its Current Age
Using data from multiple telescopes, an international team of astronomers has identified the most distant galaxy group to date -…
Watch a Simulation of a Galaxy, From the Big Bang Until the Present Day
The large-scale and highly-detailed TNG50 simulation has allowed scientists to shed new light on the evolution of the cosmos and…